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Why we don’t blow up the two party system will always confound me. The republicans are even more disparate than the democrats.

November 11, 2025 In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...

“[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.”

McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation

All the democrats want the shutdown to end. It’s the how that is the issue.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

November 10, 2025 Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.

Like bouncy balls in a small closed room. Unpredictable.

Focus on the good out of this. Thank you.

Don’t you think this is a strategic vote using established moderates who are not up for reelection in 2026? The CR is only good through December. In the meantime if the GOP doesn’t vote on the ACA we will be back into a shutdown and they will have lost any leverage. It also forces the House back.

The government needs to reopen. This was a strategic vote to do just that while forcing the republicans to show their hand. If they refuse to vote on the ACA the government shuts down again January 1st and the GOP will have nothing to negotiate on. This also forces the House out of recess.

Folks, while we all wish they had held out for the extension to the ACA this gets the government open. It forces the House back to Washington- to swear in Grijalva, and to force a vote on the ACA. If they don’t hold up their end of the bargain, they shut down again January 1.

Maybe those 8 senators just forced his hand. I don’t like the vote on the CR without extending the ACA either, but this could be the silver lining.

How many are up for reelection anytime soon? King isn’t up again until 2030.

Maybe they just held Little Johnson’s feet to the fire.

King is over 80 years old and has 5 years left in his term.

Yes, this sucks. But the government needs to reopen. If they do not vote on the ACA as promised and the CR runs out at the end of December we’ll be right back here in 45 days.

Cute, but King is one year into his current 6 year term.

November 9, 2025 In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...

Another Monday in this country’s longest federal government shutdown, another week of the US House of Representatives not going to work, primarily to protect the PeDonald from being exposed.

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
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Travel is my one splurge. Leave it to these buffoons to make getting there so miserable it’s almost not worth it.

Such a perfect quote.

Hi Bluesky,

God just needs 17k followers to hit 600k. And then 66k more after that to hit 666k. That will be funny.

Thanks,

God

November 7, 2025 The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.

I’m convinced today’s GOP has given up on actually governing.

This has me thinking about a mahogany box lined in ruffled cream satin.

The most corrupt administration in American history.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Do they have no sense of irony?

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva….

#TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

November 6, 2025 “None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.

“The [Republicans] ran on affordability in 2024. They gave sanctimonious lectures on cable news on election night about how the ‘silent working class majority’ had spoken. Then they governed as reckless authoritarians, punishing the working class.”